This date marked the inaugural flight of the first prototype of Avro Canada’s CF-100, the first fighter jet to be entirely designed and built in Canada. The project began in 1946, becoming the ...

Canada’s interceptor of the early 1950s, the CF-100 Canuck, could neither catch nor kill these fast bombers. Enter the CF-105 Avro Arrow. The Arrow’s mission mirrored that of the later MiG-25 ...